And Of Clay Are We Created Summary
Comparison and Contrast of “The Management of Grief” and “And of Clay Are We Created”
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The main characters in “And of Clay Are We Created” and of “Management of Grief” differ in many ways. In “Management of Grief”, Shaila Bhave is the main character who is a 36 year old Indian Hindu Canadian woman that lost her husband and two sons in a plane crash to India. On the other hand, the main character in “And Clay are we created” is Rolf Clarke who is a middle age TV reporter, first to arrive at the mud slide disaster caused by volcanic activities that tries to save a girl trapped in the mud. The difference of both characters separates them from one another. While one character is a reporter at the scene trying to save life …show more content…
In beginning of “And of Clay Are We Created” the narrator describes Rolf Carle to report the news with “equanimity in the face of danger and suffering” and seemed detached from his emotions. The way he tried to comfort the girl and help her through the night by singing songs and staying with her shows his demeanor and resilience in the face of the tragedy. Midway in the story when the girl starts to remind Rolf of all the women in his life, his past opens up and the repressed memories becomes fresh in his mind. The memories - burying of prisoners died from starvation in the concentration camps as he recalls “the naked bodies piled like a mountain of firewood” and how his father would beat him and his retarded sister. Likewise in “The Management of Grief”, Shaila doesn’t lose herself in the tragedy and remains calm while she narrates the story as a reporter much like Rolf and is described by the people as “the strongest of us all” in coping with the tragedy. Then underneath it all as she says in her mind “I wish I could scream, starve, walk into Lake Ontario, jump from a bridge” shows that she is repressing her feelings of the tragedy. Towards the end of the stories, the characters reached a point of acceptance and started on the path of
Introduction missing……
The main characters in “And of Clay Are We Created” and of “Management of Grief” differ in many ways. In “Management of Grief”, Shaila Bhave is the main character who is a 36 year old Indian Hindu Canadian woman that lost her husband and two sons in a plane crash to India. On the other hand, the main character in “And Clay are we created” is Rolf Clarke who is a middle age TV reporter, first to arrive at the mud slide disaster caused by volcanic activities that tries to save a girl trapped in the mud. The difference of both characters separates them from one another. While one character is a reporter at the scene trying to save life …show more content…
In beginning of “And of Clay Are We Created” the narrator describes Rolf Carle to report the news with “equanimity in the face of danger and suffering” and seemed detached from his emotions. The way he tried to comfort the girl and help her through the night by singing songs and staying with her shows his demeanor and resilience in the face of the tragedy. Midway in the story when the girl starts to remind Rolf of all the women in his life, his past opens up and the repressed memories becomes fresh in his mind. The memories - burying of prisoners died from starvation in the concentration camps as he recalls “the naked bodies piled like a mountain of firewood” and how his father would beat him and his retarded sister. Likewise in “The Management of Grief”, Shaila doesn’t lose herself in the tragedy and remains calm while she narrates the story as a reporter much like Rolf and is described by the people as “the strongest of us all” in coping with the tragedy. Then underneath it all as she says in her mind “I wish I could scream, starve, walk into Lake Ontario, jump from a bridge” shows that she is repressing her feelings of the tragedy. Towards the end of the stories, the characters reached a point of acceptance and started on the path of